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Barton's cousin Paul Taylor, 20, has admitted striking the fatal blow, which left the axe embedded in Anthony's head.

But prosecutors claim Barton supplied the murder weapon.

Anthony was targeted as he stood at a Liverpool bus stop with his white girlfriend Louise Thompson and cousin Marcus Binns, 18.

Opening the case against Barton, prosecutor Neil Flewitt QC said: "Paul Taylor and Michael Barton are white. Anthony Walker and Marcus Binns are black. Paul Taylor, Michael Barton and others decided to pursue Anthony Walker and Marcus Binns for no reason other than the colour of their skin."

Football star's brother guilty of racist axe murder

LONDON (AFP) - The 17-year-old brother of a Premiership footballer was convicted of the racist axe murder of a black teenager which shocked Britain.

Anthony Walker, an 18-year-old secondary school student, was left with the axe embedded in his skull after he walked away from louts yelling racist abuse in the Huyton suburb of Liverpool, last July.
Michael Barton, brother of Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton, was found guilty by a jury at Preston Crown Court, sitting in Liverpool.

Walker, a devout Christian and talented athlete, was attacked as he walked his girlfriend to a bus stop with his cousin Marcus Binns.

Paul Taylor, 20, inflicted the fatal blow and admitted murder, but Barton was convicted on the grounds that he supplied the axe and sparked the confrontation.